Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . with the well-known Church-ill, Watsou & Company dry goods house of Boston, Massachusetts, thusearly becoming inducted to the best possible advantage into the newworld business methods of his trade. Three years later he entered intobusiness for himself in Worcester, Massachusetts, subsequently removingto Albany, New York, to engage in the same line, remaining in thelast named cities for periods of three years and finding each alike wellsupplied with dry goods merchants of large means and
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . with the well-known Church-ill, Watsou & Company dry goods house of Boston, Massachusetts, thusearly becoming inducted to the best possible advantage into the newworld business methods of his trade. Three years later he entered intobusiness for himself in Worcester, Massachusetts, subsequently removingto Albany, New York, to engage in the same line, remaining in thelast named cities for periods of three years and finding each alike wellsupplied with dry goods merchants of large means and abundant enter-prise. The proferred sale of the Smith & Wallace dry goods businessat Pittsfield, Massachusetts, coming to the notice of Mr. Kennedy andMr. W. D. Maclnnes resulted in its purchase by them and the subse-quent building up of one of the largest mercantile establishments inM^estern Massachusetts, drawing a constantly increasing and well satis-fied patronage from Berkshire and adjoining counties. The firm trans-acted lousiness as Kennedy & Maclnnes Company up to February i, 1905,. T Ue ,is J^ubU^ancj Lo BERKSHIRE COUNTY 231 when it was incorporated as The Kennedy-^laclnnes Company, ]\ being its treasinxr. Mr. Kennedy is a valued and ^ahlable citizen keenly interested inand contributory to all methods, measures and enterprises that appealedto him as calculated to advance the interests of the home of his adop-tion. He served with efficiency as president of Pittsfields board oftrade; is a director of Pittsfield National Bank, and Pittsfield StreetRailway Company; president of the Pittsfield Electric Light Companvand one of the founders and first president of the local branch of theYoung Mens Christian Association. He is a member of the board ofinvestment .of the Berkshire County Savings Bank. He married Mary,daughter of the late John Rodgers, the well known machinist and builderof engines of Albany, New York. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Kennedvare: Ethel,
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